Drifters in search of work, George and his childlike friend Lennie, have nothing in the world except each other and a dream - a dream that one day they will have some kind of land of their own. Tackling universal themes, friendship and a shared vision, this is a hugely popular audiobook. A great piece of classic fiction which is studied by many at...

Andrew Marvell's poetry went largely unnoticed during his life time. Born in 1621 his poetry was inspired by events of the time, public or personal. Now critics are united in admiration for this metaphysical poet.

Simon lives three seconds ahead of everyone else, which creates embarrassing problems, such as answering questions that haven't yet been asked and trying to walk through doors that haven't yet been opened. This inventive story takes you on a journey through space-time, while offering valuable lessons in acceptance and understanding. A great mix of...

Thrilled at his first command, a little brig sloop called Teazer, Thomas Kydd must race to bring his ship to battle readiness - he is desperately needed to defend Malta against Barbary corsairs, ferocious privateers and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. But his jubilation does not last long -...

Thomas Kydd, a wig-maker from Guildford, is seized by the press gang to be a part of the crew of the 98-gun line-of-battle ship. The ship sails immediately and Kydd has to learn the realities of shipboard life fast. Despite all that he goes through in danger of tempest and battle, he comes to admire the skills and courage of the seamen. CONTAINS ST...

Victoria's irreverent pilgrimage takes her to key places around the world that also share her namesake, from Fort Victoria in Ghana, to Victoria, Nova Scotia, and finishing at Zambia's Victoria Falls. Victoria's adventure is fuelled by her fascination with the Queen Victoria - both her public and private persona. She explores how Victoria felt abou...

This adventure involves UNIT, a gigantic robot, a tremendously overpowered gun, and a plot by a team of quasi-Randian scientists to hold the world at nuclear ransom in order to effect certain a plan of science-based societal reforms. A story featuring the further adventures of the time traveller Dr Who, as he journeys through time and space with a...

The Apollo moon programme has been called the last optimistic act of the twentieth century. Over a strange three-year period between 1969 and 1972, twelve men made the longest and most eccentric of all journeys and all were indelibly marked by it. In this audiobook, Andrew Smith sets out to find and interview the remaining moonwalkers in order to l...

Controversial and compelling, this audiobook reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. Truman Capote's comprehensive study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amo...

Ida Joner gets on her brand new bike and sets off to buy sweets. A good-natured, happy girl, she is looking forward to her tenth birthday. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. She phones the shop and various friends, but no one has seen her daughter. As the family goes out looking for Ida, H...

In 1941, Irene Nemirovsky sat down to write a novel that would convey the magnitude of what she was living through, not in terms of battles and politicians, but by evoking the domestic lives and personal trials of the ordinary citizens of France. Set during a year that begins with France's fall to the Nazis in June 1940, this audiobook falls into t...

This audiobook paints a fascinating picture of the comparative scale of phenomena in our world, from the vast to the infinitesimal. The listener is taken on a roller-coaster ride through maths, physics, chemistry, biology and technology: from zero to infinity in maths and time; from subatomic particles to galaxies; from the speed and size of the 'B...

This audiobook explains how the the commonwealth came into being, how it developed into what it is today, why it matters, what it does for ordinary people and especially its relationship with young people. It's an invaluable resource for citizenship.

Dr Carr's mind is firmly made up. Katy and her little sister Clover are to spend a whole year away at boarding school. A strange place, far from home, but on arrival the girls have an inkling that it might turn out to be rather different from their expectations. One thing is for sure, it certainly isn't going to be dull with a girl like Rose Red as...

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which...

As their holiday unfolds, Colin and Maria are locked into their own intimacy. They groom themselves meticulously, as though there waits someone who cares deeply about how they appear. Then, they meet a man with a disturbing story to tell and become drawn into a fantasy of violence and obsession. THIS AUDIOBOOK CONTAINS STRONG LANGUAGE AND/OR ADULT...

Moving to remote Shetland has been unsettling enough for consultant surgeon Tora Hamilton; even before the gruesome discovery she makes one rain-drenched afternoon... Deep in the peat soil of her field she is shocked to find the perfectly preserved body of a young woman, a gaping hole where her heart has been brutally removed and three rune marks e...

When two girls, aged nine and ten are abducted and killed in Wind Gap, Missouri, Camille Preaker is sent back to her home town to investigate and report on the crimes. Camille, self-described 'white trash from old money', is the daughter of one of the richest families in town. Long-haunted by a childhood tragedy and estranged from her mother for ye...

Balram Halwai is the White Tiger - the smartest boy in his village. His family is too poor to afford for him to finish school and he has to work in a teashop, breaking coals and wiping tables. But Balram gets his break when a rich man hires him as a chauffeur and takes him to live in Delhi. The city is a revelation. As he drives his master to shopp...

Galahad Threepwood is causing scandal again... this time by deciding to not publish his potentially humiliating high-society memoirs. His decision causes rifts in the ranks at castle Blandings and all involved split into three camps: those who want the book suppressed, those who want it published, and those, who for some reason or another, have bee...

Harriet and Guy Pringle, husband and wife, are in Bucharest, where Guy works, at the outbreak of World War II. They are forced to leave the country, travelling through Greece and ending up in North Africa. They are separated and each fear the worst, but love is strong, and hope and faith are even stronger. This audiobook is a detailed account of lo...